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No. 626,70I Patented lune I3, 1899. E. D. HAG.

BAG HOLDER.

(Application ltd Apr. 6, 1898.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT f OFFICE.

ELwYN D. IICA'G, or CHARLES CITY, IowA, ASSIGNCE or CNE-HALF To CHARLES P. GORDON, or SAME PLACE.

BAG-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 626,701, dated June 1.3, 1899.

Application iiled April 6, 1898. Serial No. 676,655. (No model TO'LLZZ whom t may con/cern:

Be tknown that I, ELWSQN D. I-IoAG, a citizen ot' the United States, residing at Charles City, in the county of Floyd and State of iowa, have invented a new and useful Bag-Holder, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to devices for holding bags to be filled, and has for its, object to furnish a device of this class provided with means for raising the mouth of the bag and shaking down the contents during the operation of filling.

Vith this object in view my invention consists in a bag-liolder comprising a stand with a fixed upright thereon, a cross-bar mounted to slide upon the upright and be held in any position thereon, means for suspending the bag carried by said upright, and devices for elevating the cross-bar and bag-holdin g mechanism actuated by the operation of a treadle.

My invention further consists in the improved construction, arrangement, and combination ofV parts hereinafter fully described and afterward specifically pointed out in the appended claims.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention most nearly appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective View illustrating a bag-holderconstructed in accordance with my invention with a bag suspended thereon. Fig. 2 is a View of the holder in front elevation. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional View on the plane indicated .by the broken line 3 3 of Fig. A2, looking downward. Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view on a plane cutting through the holder from front to rear on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2, a portion of the base-board being broken away. Fig. 5 is a transverse sectional view on the plane indicated by the broken line 5 5 of Fig. 2. Fig. 6 is a detail view, being a vertical section on the line 6 6 of Fig. 4. Fig. 7 is a View similar to Fig. 4, illustrating a slightly-modied form of my invention in which the treadle and hoisting mechanism are attached to the rear instead of the front of the upright.

Like numerals mark the same parts wherever they occur in the various figures of the drawings. Y

Referring to the drawings by numerals, 10 indicates a base-board properly supported from casters or rollers 11 in order that -.it may be easily moved from place to place.

12 indicates an upright erected at the rear side or end of the base-hoard and carried to a suitable height to permit of bags of all the lengths in general use being suspended from a cross-bar 13, mounted to slide vertically thereon. The cross-bar 13 is provided with a metallic loop or staple- 14, which passes around the upright 12 and is prevented from being raised 0H the top of the upright by means of aYstop-pin 15.

The bag-holder proper is composed of wire, the straight portion 16 thereof being secured on top of the cross-bar 13 by staples or eyes 17, the wirebeing bent horizontally at each end and formed into coils 18, the wire after passing the coils extending to a distance from the cross-bar sufficient to distend the mouth of any ordinary bag or sack. At these points 19 the wire is again turnedv back to points 20 on the top of the cross-bar, when it is again carried forward and downward through eyes 21, secured in the front face of the cross-bar, from whence it is again carried upward and bent backward above thel cross-bar, forming points 22. A wire yoke 23, substantially V- shaped, has its upper ends bent horizontally and passed through eyes 24, depending from the bottom of the cross-bar 13. Suspended from the center of the yoke 23 is an eyebolt 25, which passes through eyes 26 and 27, secured to the front of the upright 12.

28 indicates a treadle pivoted on a pin 29, projecting from a supplementary upright 30 by the side of the main upright 12. The inner `end of the treadle is pivotally secured at the lower end of a rod 3l, which is bent near its upper end to a horizontal position, as at 32, where it is passed through an eye in an arm 33,projectinglaterally from aring 34,mounted upon the eyebolt 25 between the eyes 26 and 27. After passing through the eye in the arm 33 the rod 3l is again bent upward at 35 and horizontally at 36, the horizontal arm 36 passingbetween the eyebolt 25 and the upright 12.

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In the modification shown in Fig, Y 7 the: yoke 23 straddles the npr-ight 12,;and.the eyes;

be no liability of the bag becoming hunger,

entangled on any of the moving parts.

The construction of my invention will be readily understood from the foregoing description, and'its operation may be described Aas follows: A bag to be filled is placed in position in front'of the upright to have its bottomrest upon the base-board 10, the mouth ofthe bag being stretched around the wire holder and the material impaled upon the points 2 2. The Egrain or other filling may now be pouredv into the bag out of measures or with'scoopshovels .until the bag is partially filled,.when by pressing downward upon A.the treadle. 28

the rod 31 will be forced upward, carrying the t arm 33l and the yring 34 With it, untilthe horizontal arm 36 strikes the under side of the eye 26.vr During this operation the ring 34 binds uponvthe eyebolt 25 and carries the eyebolt, the yoke 23, the cross-bar 13, and the wire bag-holder, with the bag suspended thereon, also upward. W'hen this limit of the upward movement is reached, the treadle is released and the ring34 slides down on the eyebolt 25 until it rests on the eye27. In the mean-r time, however, the weight of the bag being centeredat a distance in front of the upright 12 upon the vwire holder will have atendency topress the cross-bar 13 against the front of the upright and the loop 14 against the back thereof,y thus causing the loop and cross-bar to bind on the upright and prevent the cross,- bar from descending with the ring 34. A repetition ofV this vmovement of the treadle will still further elevate the cross-bar and wire' bag-holder until the limit is reached and the loop 14 strikes the stop-pin 15.

With the construction shown in Fig. 7 the operation of the various parts is A,identically the same.

The advantages attending the use of my invention will be obvious from the foregoing de-r vscription.

and it maybe let down at any time by lifting the points 19 ofthe bag-holder, which will relieve the pressure of the cross-bar 13 and loop 14 on the front and rear of the upright. The arrangement of mechanism is such that a bag with considerable weight ofmaterial in it can be :raised very readily andwhen filled can be as readily dropped vupon the base-board to be tied and removed therefrom.

While I have illustrated and described the best means for carrying out my invention, I do not wish to be understood as restricting myself to the eXact details of construction shown, but hold thatV anyslight changes or variations suchas might suggest themselves to the ordinary mechanic would properly fall within the limit andjscope of my invention.

` Having thus vrfully described my invention,

what I claimras new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. The combination with the upright and the cross-bar carrying the bag-holder and provided with means for holding it in any position to which it may be raised on the upright, of the yoke: 23, pivotally connected to the under side ofthe cross-bar, the eyebolt or rod mounted in eyes projectingfrom the upright and pivotally connected to the lower end of the yoke, and means for giving a step-by-step, vertical movement vto the eyebolt, substantially as described.`

2. The combination with theupright, the wire bag-holder,I thereon and the loop secured tothe top of the cross-,barand encircling the upright, of the yoke pivoted to the under side of the cross-bar, the eyebolt or rod pivotally connected to the yoke and mounted in eyes projecting from the upright, the ring, 34, mountedupon the eyebolt or rod, between its supporting-eyes and provided with the laterally-projecting arm having a horizontal eye, the pivoted treadle, and lthe rod, pivotally connected to the inner end of the treadle, passing through the horizontal eye of the ringarm and bent horizontally atits upper end to form a stop-arm adapted to limit the upward inovement of the devices, substantially as described. i

ELVVYN D. KHOAG.

Witnesses:

JAMES H. LLOYD, CHARLnsP.. GoRDoN.

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